I get up off my chair and walk away from the machine?
I swear if I sit there the entire time watching the machine not one single thing goes wrong.BUT whenever I get up and leave the room to do anything something always seems to go wrong the thread breaks, a rats nest forms, the needle breaks, etc, etc, etc.
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85867WOW this post has the most responses I have seen since I have been here...Ha Ha.....sure hits home with us all....the answers are hysterical, and I am still laughing. No one knew when they installed that sensor that it would work so well and that it would cause so much interest....lol Luck to us all and lets try to tame that beast. Flowers all around for putting a true smile in my day....
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1952My machines are the same way. I think they they have eyeballs somewhere, just haven't found them.
Try talking to them!!!
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by psssst
10 Aug 2010
Oh I do not know if I can go that far to actually talk to my machines... I already talk a lot to my pets and myself... I worry that it will take me over the edge if I start conversing with my machines (BUT I may just try it! SHHHHHHH our secret!)
29871Oh How I love my baby. I set it up and walk away, leave the room, close the door. check every now and then to change the thread. When I bought this MB4 the store owner told me she just set the stitch down to 400-500 and carried on around the shop. So that is what I do. So far No problems at all. Brother 1200 was a real big pain ......
Helen
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39739LOL... I'm learning that comes with the territory. I guess the solution is to get a BIG doll and set it in front of the machine. hehehhe...
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by psssst
09 Aug 2010
hahaha Bev I would hate to invest in the doll what if it didn't work for the machine and there are no car pool lanes where I live soooooo...
I would be the strange old lady in the big house with a life size doll :0
36693I agree it seems whenever you walk away something will happen but if you stay there it acts perfectly. I guess like kids.Hehe Arlene
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31366from what I am reading seems like all our machines like to act up when mom's away LOL I have given up on leaving while it's running, I hold my pee till a color change or stop it now. I hate having a project ruined just for a cup of coffee or a pee LOL
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17461ROTFL!!!!
You know I think they are like little children...They behave and play nicely by themselves/or with other siblings and yes the second you leave the room you hear crying or complaining. Funny like that.
But you can still have fun with them!(Kids and the machines!) He he
Kathy
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62461Oh - I do believe that they are sensitive little babies - I have had two of them running - can't sit with either of them, now - so they are going to have to learn - that when I get up - I am still close by - this apartment is so small - I could be in the other room and still know if they were running or not - I hope that they sense that I am that close, too. Hehehe!
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by ansalu
09 Aug 2010
My "baby" needs so much attention:
Even if you are in the same room and didn't not hear any suspicious sound she is going mad and take all she needs from the bobbin so you have plain white embroidery... :o(
by psssst
09 Aug 2010
I have a large house the sewing room is in the center, unfortunately my hearing isn't so good anymore so when I step out of the room I no longer hear the machine running.
by ansalu
09 Aug 2010
I'm always sitting near my little diva when she's stitching; most of the time at the dining table and sew or do something else. But I have to watch at the embroidery from time to time (mainly when I have a design with more than 5000 stitches in one color) because the thread often stick at the first loop at the top of the machine; you hear no warning or stop of the machine! No, she takes more bobbin instead of the thread so that the embroidery is white.
Then you have to remove this and go back when all the trouble starts... :o(
211079Haha! So funny but so true! My kids had that same sensor in them when they were small. Turn my back for a minute and BAM!! Too bad there is no "stop" button on kids!!
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9983psssst I learned long ago to stay withing reach of my machine while it's running. At least in the same room everything goes wrong if I am out of earshot of it. *
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145791I always hit the STOP button, when leaving my room, no matter how long it will be. Sometimes I even remove the hoop and start again with the same design the next day (just remember the sequence number. I have no problems so far on my BabyLock Ellegante.
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by psssst
08 Aug 2010
I guess I should just pause it when I walk away for any reason but I don't
and then the sensor tells the machine on me( Elvis has left the building!)
I never did like tattle tales hahaha
2133we must have the same machine, can sit in front of it for hours, go upstaires to make a cup of tea i would swear it knows when i leave my room.
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1531Yesterday mine was cranky all day! He got me so frustrated, that when I was trimming the WSS from a FSL angel, I snipped the threads of her skirt and ruined her. His problem I finally discovered was he needed the lint cleaned from his bobbin!!
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by psssst
08 Aug 2010
Oh I am so sad to hear your angel got ruined because that naughty machine had you so flustered!
8944Hey, mine too!!! I call it a body heat sensor.****
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by psssst
08 Aug 2010
Now you just might be onto something with that... Lord knows I throw off a ton of body heat with these darn hot flashes so maybe the machine senses the temp change when I walk away.
Hmmmmmmmmm (wheels spinning)
maybe set the toaster oven closer to the machine???
60484Thank you, I thought mine was the only one who needed constant supervision... Like my kids...
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35167Yes, I think of mine as a child. A child needs constant attention, so does my Babylock BMP.
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by psssst
08 Aug 2010
worse than a kid, you give a child something to stay busy and you can have some peace and quiet hahaha
169064I thought I was the only one who had this problem! NOT!!!
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7568They need love, care and much comprehension, but my designer 1 is very nice... when I am here to understand any of his noise, it is his way to warn me if something get wrong
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by psssst
08 Aug 2010
you are very smart and lucky to know your machines language mine doesn't speak to me that I can tell hahaha
25533mine also needs attention like a diva :o)
Maybe it works if I make a dummy with my foto sitting next to the machine? Or like a friend does: She uses a babyfone whenever she leaves the room with her emboiderymachine ;o)
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by psssst
08 Aug 2010
I thought about one of those baby monitors but it doesn't stop the machine from acting up.
33986i guess we are just going to have to baby sit them.........oh well.
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by psssst
08 Aug 2010
yes I know it is just so darn boring when you have to slow the machine down and sit for 2 hrs hahaha
27608Also have the same problem "call it Murphy's law"
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by psssst
08 Aug 2010
If the law had heard what I was saying yesterday to that spoilt brat of a machine I most likely would've gotten a bar of soap in my mouth hahaha
12102Mine is a Cry-Baby too. I try to fox it by singing loudly,so It can still hear me when I leave for a few minutes, this sometimes actually works.
I still LOVE mine though.
From Bev
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by psssst
08 Aug 2010
hahaha I don't normally sing to my machine so I don't think that would work. Perhaps I should set a 100lb sack of potatoes on the chair wearing a pair of glasses??? hmmmmmmmmm
(wheels turning)
7875Join the group Psssst... we should form a union and revolt!!
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by psssst
08 Aug 2010
With all this technology there should be a sensor anticipating a malfunction to save us the troubles. Oh wouldn't that be great if before the thread broke or a rats nest started our sweet expensive machines would say in a very sweet voice "Please stop me now I feel a problem coming on... check the (whatever)"
45070You are so right....I can watch until the last 3 minutes of a design and step out of the room and yes it misses me so much it has a mini nervous breakdown and I hear the beeping calling me back....I guess our machine are just insecure!
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by psssst
08 Aug 2010
Lucky you have a beep mine doesn't it just stops after the manure has hit the fan hahaha
8647504I think it is Murphy's law, if something can go wrong, it will. Of course it is always when we aren't looking!
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63126YEP that sensor lives in all our machines lol...and it worked on mine today just fine.....
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1952mine must be the sis to yours...heehee I have the same thing happen....
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by roberta
08 Aug 2010
I always turn mine off when leaving the room for a few minutes so i don't break any needles or whatever else happens when i leave the room. saves time and buying more needles. Roberta
by roberta
08 Aug 2010
let me rephrase that. i push the STOP button, not turn it off. I'd be in trouble if i turned it off. Roberta
by psssst
08 Aug 2010
I do if I know I am going to be away more than 3 or 5 mins. BUT c'mon a minute and a half to tinkle??? That is just too spoilt.
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